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Dec 23, 2020, 6:01 PM

A lesson in values from the priests of Egypt

Amid the darkness of Egyptian culture, the moral backbone of the country's priesthood is the address of rare praise in this week's Torah reading. As famine struck Egypt, all of the citizens of Egypt arrived at the royal storehouses to...

Dec 18, 2020, 3:53 PM

Pharaoh’s beef with the butler

We don't often expect to learn good character traits from Middle Eastern despots, yet in this week's parasha, Pharoah serves as an excellent role model.In his dealings with his Royal Butler, Pharoah draws the praises of the Torah for...

Dec 10, 2020, 11:38 AM

The dreams that we make

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This week, at a parent's evening, my son’s school rabbi gave some words of advice about how to help him achieve his potential. “If he shares an idea on Friday night, put everything else aside, and give him your...

Nov 20, 2020, 3:30 PM

What Jacob learned from his grandfather

We are told very little about Jacob’s character in his early days. Until his teenage years, one of the few pieces of information the Torah gives about Jacob is that he was a “Dweller of tents,” – ‘Yoshev Ohalim.’...

Nov 11, 2020, 7:50 AM

Abraham, Shabbat and the philosopher in all of us

From an early age, Abraham was lost in thought. Wondering day and night, he grappled with questions about how the world kept turning, and what caused the trees to grow and the rivers to flow. Midrash Raba points to...

Oct 29, 2020, 1:53 AM

Will the Real Abraham Please Stand Up

The prophet Isaiah once proclaimed to the People of Israel reeling from crisis, “Look to the rock from which you were cut… look to Abraham.” Studying his trailblazing path and character are empowering for actualizing our own potential, since...

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About Me

Rabbi Adam Ross is a British born Jewish educator and writer. He has a BA in Political Science from Birmingham University (UK) and semicha from Beit Midrash, Sulam Yaakov (Jerusalem). From 2015-2018 he was the Aish campus rabbi in Leeds where he shared many drinks with students while teaching the power of Tanach and Midrash to unlock deeper understandings of Jewish thought and practise.